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ByteDance organisation

Named in 24 reports across 12 stories - 7 Aug – 15 Oct
7 Aug 202615 Oct 2026

The record - coverage naming ByteDance that changed after publication

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  1. South China Morning Postseen 24 Aug, 03:14description editedthe story
  2. South China Morning Postseen 22 Aug, 02:51description editedthe story
  3. Axiosseen 13 Aug, 04:15description editedthe story

The web around ByteDance

Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with ByteDance. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without ByteDance.

Brazil and TikTok share 2 reportsAlabama and TikTok share 2 reportsJustice Department and US share 2 reportsTikTok and USA share 2 reportsTikTok and US share 2 reportsChina and US share 1 reportMeta and USA share 1 reportMeta and TikTok share 1 reportAnthropic and China share 1 reportDoJ and TikTok share 1 reportJustice Department and TikTok share 1 reportDoJ and US share 1 reportByteDanceTikTokTikTok - 11 shared reports (organization)USUS - 5 shared reports (place)ChinaChina - 3 shared reports (place)AlabamaAlabama - 2 shared reports (place)AnthropicAnthropic - 2 shared reports (organization)BrazilBrazil - 2 shared reports (place)DoJDoJ - 2 shared reports (organization)Justice Dep…Justice Department - 2 shared reports (organization)MetaMeta - 2 shared reports (organization)USAUSA - 2 shared reports (place)

The stories

Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing

549 outlets4 reports name ByteDance29 Jul – 24 Oct

Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit

202 outlets2 reports name ByteDance6 Aug – 23 Oct

Scoop: DOJ, TikTok settle for $400 million in children's privacy suit

33 outlets8 reports name ByteDance21 Aug – 27 Aug

Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature

15 outlets2 reports name ByteDance11 Sept – 9 Oct

ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropic’s Mythos, FT reports

4 outlets1 report names ByteDance7 Aug – 12 Aug

Meta bans TikTok ads on its platforms in US, Japan and other countries

2 outlets1 report names ByteDance9 Oct

White House Lifts Ban on TikTok From US Government Devices

2 outlets1 report names ByteDance11 Aug

ByteDance Case Signals Tough Road Ahead for Big Tech in Europe

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance15 Oct

ByteDance nears chip supply deal with MediaTek for data centres, Bloomberg News reports

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance15 Oct

Alibaba sends AI ‘digital employees’ to work in rival apps from ByteDance, Tencent

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance9 Sept

ByteDance gets $30 billion loan, Bloomberg News reports

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance3 Sept

ByteDance signs AI copyright pact with Hollywood trade group

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance17 Aug

Places in the same coverage

US5China3Alabama2Brazil2USA2Brasilien1Brazílii1

Organisations in the same coverage

TikTok11Anthropic2DoJ2Justice Department2Meta2Alibaba1Alibaba Group Holding1Alphabet1Anew Labs1ANPD1Big Tech1DeepSeek1Department of Justice1

Who keeps naming them

South China Morning Post9Channel News Asia4Novinky (Czechia)2Axios1The Hill1The Guardian World1BBC News World1Anadolu Agency (AA)1Al Jazeera English1Die Zeit (Germany)1N1 Info (Croatia)1Google News - Europe query1

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